
The Air Force asked a federal judge June 28 to dismiss a lawsuit against it by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), claiming the company missed its opportunity to bid for the “block buy” of 36 launch cores to United Launch Alliance (ULA) and, thus, lacks standing to sue. The service, in a June 30 filling in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, said SpaceX knew about the Air Force’s intent to award a sole-source contract to ULA and received a…